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Charges Expand in a Madoff Case

Federal prosecutors announced expanded charges on Monday against five former employees of the investment firm operated by Bernard L. Madoff, in an indictment that dates the conspiracy to defraud clients to roughly two decades earlier than previously thought.

The new charges were filed against a former operations manager, Daniel Bonventre; two former investment advisory employees, Annette Bongiorno and Joann Crupi; and two former computer programmers, Jerome O’Hara and George Perez.

The United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said the 33-count indictment contained new charges against the defendants, including bank fraud related to both corporate and personal loans, as well as new tax offenses.

The original November 2010 indictment dated the conspiracy to defraud clients of the former Madoff firm to roughly 1992, but Mr. Bharara said the new indictment dated the conspiracy to the early 1970s. “We will not rest until all the alleged participants and enablers are made to answer for their conduct,” he said in a statement.

The defendants are expected to be arraigned on Tuesday, Mr. Bharara said.

Mr. Madoff, 74, is serving a 150-year sentence in a North Carolina federal prison for operating an extensive Ponzi scheme.

A version of this article appears in print on October 2, 2012, on Page B6 of the New York edition with the headline: Charges Expand In a Madoff Case. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe